Ben Roberts, a 33-year-old from Fowlerville, Mich., estimates that medical bracelets and necklaces have cost him more than $1,000 since he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 6. Frustrated ...

Instead of wearing a medical alert bracelet, some people choose to engrave critical medical information on their skin. Tattoos can alert paramedics and other health professionals to conditions ...

Matt Zavadsky with Fort Worth's Medstar EMS says medical tattoos are showing up in about one in every 100 patients. He says people are getting tattoos on their body to alert medics to potentially ...

There’s potential, too, to use tattoos instead of medical alert bracelets to identify people with severe allergies or serious medical conditions like diabetes or epilepsy. Tattoos normally ...

like tattoos to guide radiation treatments for cancer patients. Or replacing medical alert bracelets or indicating blood type. As you can see in the graphic above, the scientists tested different ...

She owns Imagine You New, a specialized medical tattoo studio. After years as an esthetician trained in microneedling and facial treatments, Cypser taught herself the delicate art of medical ...

Tattoos are no longer taboo — even for people in traditionally conservative professions like law, investment banking and politics. But what do most people know about medical tattoos? Medical ...